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CHARLES E. COBB JR., born in Washington D.C. in 1943, is senior analyst for
allAfrica.com, the world's largest electronic provider of news and information about Africa. He is also a visiting professor at Brown University where every spring he conducts an undergraduate seminar titled The Organizing Tradition of the Southern Civil Rights Movement.

After entering Howard University in 1961, Cobb left one year later to work as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the Mississippi Delta. While working in that state he originated the proposal for Freedom Schools that became such an important part of the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project. A founding member of the National Association of Black Journalists, Cobb began his journalism career in 1974 as a reporter for WHUR Radio in Washington, DC. In 1976 he joined the staff of National Public Radio as a foreign affairs reporter. He was an on-air writer/correspondent for PBS’s FRONTLINE from 1980-84. From 1985-1997 Cobb was a member of the Editorial Staff of National Geographic magazine—the first black writer to become one of that magazine's staff writers.

Cobb is co-author, with the legendary civil rights organizer and educator, Robert P. Moses, of the book Radical Equations, Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project. He co-edited No Easy Victories, African Liberation and American Activists Over a Half Century, 1950-2000, with William Minter and Gail Hovey. His latest book was released January 15, 2008: On the Road to Freedom, a Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail. On July 24, 2008 the National Association of Black Journalists honored Cobb’s work by inducting him into their “Hall of Fame”.

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